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Private liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi, U. S.

Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi. It was founded in 1890 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, who donated the land for the college and $50,000. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South organized the college's early fund raising efforts. Both men were honored with halls named in their honor. Major Millsaps and his wife are interred in a tomb near the center of campus. The current United Methodist Church continues to affiliate with the college.

Millsaps was chosen as one of 131 sites for the training of Navy and Marine officers in the V 12 Navy College Training Program. In April 1943, 380 students arrived for the Navy V 12 program offering engineering, pre medical and pre dental training. Thereafter Millsaps began accepting students year round for the program. A total of 873 officer candidates went through Millsaps between 1943 and 1945.

Millsaps College students protested the shooting of Jackson State University student and civil rights worker Benjamin Brown, who was killed by police at a protest. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission photographed the Millsaps protesters and identified them. The Sovereignty Commission spied on and conspired against civil rights activists and organized pressure and economic oppression of those who supported the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

1890: Major Reuben Webster Millsaps founds the college with a personal gift of $50,000. 1901: Millsaps builds the first golf course in Mississippi. 1902: Mary Letitia Holloman becomes the first female graduate of Millsaps. 1908: Sing Ung Zung of Suzhou, China, becomes the first international student to graduate from Millsaps. 1914: Old Main, one of the first buildings on campus, burns and is replaced by Murrah Hall. 1916: Major Millsaps dies and is interred on campus. 1931: The first night football game in Mississippi is played on the Millsaps campus between the Majors and Mississippi A&M (now Mississippi State University). 1936: Millsaps College absorbs bankrupt Grenada College during the Great Depression. 1943: Johnny Carson attends Millsaps for V 12 naval officer training, entertaining his comrades with a magic and humor act. 1944: Louis H. Wilson, who graduated from the college in 1941, received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Guam during World War II. Wilson became a General and the 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1975. He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full time on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 1947 48: Ruth Chang of Shanghai, China becomes one of the first non white students to attend Millsaps. 1953: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis judge a Millsaps beauty contest. 1965: Millsaps becomes the first all white college in Mississippi to voluntarily desegregate. 1967: Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign speaks at the college about the obligations of young Americans to give back to their country. 1975: Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle East. 1988: Millsaps initiates the first campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi. 1989: Millsaps becomes the first school in Mississippi to have a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.